Grandma's Recipes
おばあちゃんのおせち
A series of videos of grandmothers preparing their traditional New Year's foods (osechi) and talking about their lives, collected in a YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeiPqmB7Cs8V_DRiiqwkiZg
Well worth viewing them all.
(Oh man, I'm really going to miss G+.)
[link, food, culture, Japan, JT]
https://youtu.be/Np9wDDQPr-A
おばあちゃんのおせち
A series of videos of grandmothers preparing their traditional New Year's foods (osechi) and talking about their lives, collected in a YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeiPqmB7Cs8V_DRiiqwkiZg
Well worth viewing them all.
(Oh man, I'm really going to miss G+.)
[link, food, culture, Japan, JT]
https://youtu.be/Np9wDDQPr-A
When I was younger I didn’t listen too closely to my grandfathers stories which I regret deeply. He used to be held prisoner in Russia during the second world war. I only remember pieces of his stories that he would repeat often the older he got but we never thought of recording them. He passed away almost a decade ago. My grandmother on the other hand is still alive and turning 97 this year. She is a lot like the woman in the documentary below which I stumbled upon recently and fell in love with.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many amazing stories those people could tell. They experienced a time of war, a time when parents gave away their kids to relatives because they themselves couldn’t take care of them, a time when getting by was the best there was.
The documentary series below tells the stories of some grandmothers in context of them cooking “osechi” which is a series of dishes cooked for Japanese New Year.
-- Tina Koyoma
piecesofjapan.com - Grandma's stories and recipes - Pieces of Japan
On a wider view, this series is one of the projects of 40 Creations, a group with a vision of spreading Oishii Wrinkles from and to all over the world. An audacious and ambitious endeavor headed by Yu Nakamura.
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